Thread: More pressure?

After a few months of using my feather AC because I hadn't gotten around to refreshing one of my regular straights I finally got tired of it and decided to take one of my straights and hone it up.

Honing is something that I'd say that I'm capable of doing since I usually get it there sooner or later but it is something that I practice too infrequently to actually be good at it.

My progression was:

Chosera 1k

Naniwa superstone 3k

Naniwa speciality stone 5k

Shapton glass 8k

I started out with circles on the Chosera with what I would consider putting pressure on the blade and then a number of x-strokes with a a bit less pressure, then I did circles with pressure on the 3k, lighter circles and x-strokes on the 5k and a few light x-strokes on the 8k.

This did give me a decent edge that shaves well but the thing that confuses me is that the razor didn't leave any swarf on the Chosera(it did on the rest of them though) and now what I'm wondering is if the Chosera actually contributed anything and if what I consider to be pressure may in fact be fairly light.